Observation of highly charged sodium clusters
- 8 June 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 68 (23) , 3416-3419
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.68.3416
Abstract
Multistep ionization of mass-selected is found to yield clusters with 2≤z≤14. The energy required for each stage of ionization is observed to vary with cluster size in a manner well described by a classical electrostatic model.
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